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Let your dreams fly in a silent world

On October 6, the reporter braved the rain to come to Wuwan Community, Zhuhu Town, Sihong County, and met Zhang Tianci, a deaf-mute teenager.

Let your dreams fly in a silent world

A photo of Zhang Tianci when he participated in the competition.

Zhang Tianci is 18 years old and is currently in his third year of high school at the Zhenjiang Special Education Center. In May this year, Zhang Tianci won the Outstanding Student Award of the 32nd "Mao Yisheng Hometown Award", which aims to inspire outstanding students to grow into talents and build their hometown. In June this year, Zhang Tianci and his classmates won the first prize at the 4th (2023-2024 school year) National Youth Science and Technology Education Achievement Exhibition Competition Jiangsu Province Regional UAV Comprehensive Application Relay Challenge, and won the first prize in the national finals.

During this National Day holiday, Zhang Tianci returned to his parents.

Let your dreams fly in a silent world

Zhang Tianci took a group photo of his family with a drone.

Zhang Tianci's parents are both deaf and mute, his grandmother is sick and paralyzed, and the family is mainly run by his grandfather Zhang Chongyun. When he was two and a half years old, his grandfather found that Xiao Tianci's ability to hear and speak was impaired, so he sent him to the rehabilitation hospital in the county for examination.

"The doctor said that he could still speak normally, so he was sent to an ordinary kindergarten first, but then he gradually found that the gap between him and other children became more and more obvious." Zhang Chongyun said that no matter what, the children had to go to school, so he sent Zhang Tianci to a school for the deaf and dumb.

Zhang Chongyun said: "It is uncomfortable for my generation to be illiterate, and we must not let the next generation be illiterate, and we must go to school no matter what." ”

Grandpa believes that only by reading can you be productive, and only by learning good knowledge and receiving a good education can you change your fate. So when the family life was a little better, my grandfather took out the savings he had saved for a long time and asked his uncle to take him to Shanghai to get a cochlear implant. After wearing a cochlear implant, Zhang Tianci can use the iFLYTEK hearing (speech-to-text) software in his mobile phone to understand the meaning expressed by normal people, and he can also make some slight sounds himself.

Let your dreams fly in a silent world

Zhang Tianci's award certificate.

In 2022, Zhang Tianci reached the age of high school, and his grandfather sent him to the Zhenjiang Special Education Center. Soon after entering the school, Zhang Tianci came into contact with drones for the first time, which aroused his strong interest and attracted the attention of Li Ang, a club teacher who is also deaf-mute. Through observation, Li Ang found that Zhang Tianci was particularly talented in drone operation, so he was selected to start training. In the process of learning drone operation, Zhang Tianci faced more difficult challenges than ordinary people. Because he can't hear the drone, he can only rely on his vision to control the flight status. Sometimes the drone will sound an alarm under signal interference, but Zhang Tianci can't hear it, he can only practice repeatedly and be familiar with the operation steps. In 2023, Zhang Tianci will be selected through the provincial layers and qualified for the 7th National Youth Drone Competition. He and his classmates formed the only team of students with disabilities, competing with more than 10,000 outstanding pilots, and finally won the first prize.

Let your dreams fly in a silent world

During the National Day holiday, Zhang Tianci was studying at home, and his mother was sorting out his clothes for him.

In the silent world, Zhang Tianci used the roar of drones to play the movement of victory, and also inserted invisible wings for his dreams, and his parents are also supporting his dreams with invisible love.

Let your dreams fly in a silent world

Zhang Tianci, who was returning home during the holidays, was using a drone to record the scenery of his hometown.

During the National Day holiday, Zhang Tianci took a drone borrowed from school to skillfully control it in the field, showing his family the beautiful rural pictures he had taken.

Let your dreams fly in a silent world

Zhang Tianci is describing the competition to his mother in sign language.

Wheat fields, vegetables, plastic greenhouses...... Everywhere he looks, he captures material.

Let your dreams fly in a silent world

Zhang Tianci used a borrowed camera to take a photo of his mother.

In Zhang Tianci's view, drones are like "birds", taking him to see farther places, and he dreams of becoming a special education teacher in the future and using the knowledge and skills he has learned to build his hometown.

Let your dreams fly in a silent world

Nanjing Normal University of Special Education is Zhang Tianci's goal for the 2025 college entrance examination.

On the graph paper in front of Zhang Tianci's desk is written "Nanjing Normal University of Special Education", which is his goal for the 2025 college entrance examination.

In the silent world, Zhang Tianci spreads his wings and soars with a pair of invisible wings, challenges the impossible with pure love and firm faith, and turns the impossible into possible.

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